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Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of neonatal intensive care nurses' work environment on their attitudes towards patient safety., Design: The study had a descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional designs., Methods: The study included 304 neonatal intensive care nurses in Türkiye. The online survey included an Introductory Information Form, the Patient Safety Attitude Questionnaire and the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, comparisons, reliability and normality tests, and correlation and regression analysis., Results: While the neonatal intensive care nurses' attitudes towards safety were found to be negative, they had a favorable view of their working environments. According to the regression analysis results, quality of care; nurse manager ability, leadership, and support; staffing and resource adequacy; and nurse-physician relations affected the neonatal intensive care nurses' attitudes towards safety., Conclusion: Managers should organize neonatal intensive care environments in line with feedback from nurses. In this regard, it is recommended that managers should organize neonatal intensive care environments in line with the feedback from nurses. In this context, managers need to take measures to improve the quality of care, provide effective human resources management, and support communication within the team. In addition, it is thought that continuing strategies and programs to improve the leadership roles of manager nurses will positively affect the work environment of nurses and this situation will positively affect patient safety practices., Implication for Practice: This study provides information about nurses' working environments and attitudes towards patient safety and reveals the factors affecting these attitudes among neonatal intensive care nurses. These findings are valuable for the development of interventions to improve patient safety, especially for neonatal intensive care managers, nursing services managers, and hospital managers., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) is rich in polyphenols which are known to be protective agents against several diseases. Polyphenols are highly sensitive against temperature, pH, oxygen, and light conditions, leading to low bioaccessibility. In this study, polyphenols of sour cherry concentrate (SCC) were encapsulated by uniaxial or coaxial electrospinning with gelatin or gelatin-lactalbumin. Results showed that phenolic acids had higher encapsulation efficiencies than anthocyanins. Encapsulation efficiencies were found as 89.7 and 91.3% in terms of phenolic acids and 70.3 and 77.8% in terms of flavonoids for the uniaxially electrospun samples with gelatin and gelatin-lactalbumin, respectively. The content of polyphenols in SCC decreased after intestinal tract whereas all electrospun samples showed improved bioaccessibility. According to in vitro digestion results, electrospinning encapsulation provided 8 times better protection of cyanidin-3-glucoside compared to the non-encapsulated SCC. Results showed that especially coaxial electrospinning encapsulation is an effective method for sour cherry polyphenols., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)